Paul Heydon
Investor
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2023 - Current
Marketplace for wine consumers, wineries and wine experiences.
Investor
2022
Building the marketplace for wine consumers, wine companies and wine experiences. Consumers can book wine tastings, earn wine rewards and soon buy wines online. Pre-seed investor in round led by Hyper.
Advisor
2023
Making indoor sunshine with the Sunday Light. The Sunday Light creates the effect of standing under a clear blue sky on a sunny day. At the heart of the luminaire is an LED that produces over 30,000 lumens, cooled by water flowing throughout the structure.
Investor
2022
Invested in the Pre-seed round. Co-founder and CEO is Oliver Löffler who previously co-founded and bootstrapped Kolibri Games to a $160m exit to Ubisoft. Voya is building web3 games that are fun to play for mobile and web. Their first game is Angry Dynomites Lab which is aiming to revolutionize gaming with an immersive, open economy – a world where you collect, craft, and collaboratively build new realms. See https://www.angrydynomiteslab.com/
Investor
2022
Early investor. Mytos is a leader in automating cell manufacture. The company’s platform enables life sciences companies to grow human cells with unparalleled precision and efficiency. Mytos has assembled a world-class team of engineers and scientists to develop an automated platform to accelerate the development of life-saving therapies.
Investor
2022
Maverick uses AI-generated video to help ecommerce stores have personalized interactions with each of their customers across their journey. Invested in the seed round.
Enabling e-commerce businesses to send customers personalized videos at scale using AI.
Raised $2,850,000.00 from Google for Startups.
Investor
2020
Seed Investor. Hum is the world’s only intelligent capital market. Our funding platform pairs growth companies with investors and lenders to make funding equitable, efficient and accessible. Hum offers companies raising up to $50 million the most efficient, transparent path to growth. Hum’s Intelligent Capital Market uses AI to translate volumes of a company’s financial data into the clearest picture of their value, so they can fundraise with confidence, on the best terms for their business. Investors on Hum’s platform gain investment insights and a personalized deal flow built on company data they can trust.
Hum Capital is a funding platform connecting companies with the right capital for their growth.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Cowen Group, Invesco Private Capital, Future Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, Partech and Webb Investment Network.
Investor
2020
Glean is the first intelligent Accounts Payable Platform that can save companies money and time. Their spend intelligence & collaboration tools enable smarter and much more coordinated decision-making. They will provide benchmarking data on vendor pricing for free. Pre-seed and seed investor.
Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Raised $10,800,000.00 from Outpost Ventures, B Capital, Parameter Ventures, Portage Ventures, Infinity Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, American Express Ventures, Paul Heydon, Born Capital and Evolution Ventures.
Board Member
2020
One click browser based immersive meeting rooms with 3D avatars. No video required. No zooming out.
Investor
2020
Invested in the pre-seed round. Kayenta builds affordable, scalable and secure technology that offers efficient financing solutions for hedge funds. Their scalable and secure treasury management software delivers financial transparency and data-driven insights that were previously unavailable. Hedge funds are no longer left in the dark when it comes to their financing relationships and associated costs with prime brokers. This treasury management solution provides the right analysis tools for hedge funds to reduce financing costs and capital usage.
Investor
2018
An online clinic built for men. Invested in the first funding round in 2018 and every round since then.